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    "id": 1183307,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Thika Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a",
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    "content": "Our country is experiencing hunger at the moment. There is no food leave alone money to take children to school. If we sit down here lamenting and crying without having a way forward, we are the ones to lose the trust of the people who believed in us. The people who brought us to this House are suffering back at home. Soon, we are going for recess. What are we taking back? What are we going to tell the people who sent us to Parliament? Are we going to tell them that somebody somewhere does not want to release this money? They will not understand because they gave us all the powers. Remember we are representatives of the people who elected us, and that is why we are here. However, if we go back home and tell our constituents that somebody somewhere went to court so that the money cannot be released, they will definitely not understand. We have an ad hoc committee that has been formed today but moving forward – across the House – the Kenya Kwanza Coalition and Azimio One Kenya Alliance need to come together we discuss this matter. We need to bring on board the Attorney-General and the Cabinet Secretary responsible so that they explain to us the reason as to why money has not hit the accounts at the NG-CDF level so that programmes start running. Parents are going for a long Christmas holiday. They look forward to taking their children back to school. Why are we giving them stress? Children are now at home because they have closed school apart from the Class Eight, Grade Six and Form Fours who are sitting for their exams. What are we going to tell these parents when they are taking these Grade Six to Grade Seven and Class Eight to Form One and Form Four when they will be joining university? Can we tell them there is no money because the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning has not released the money? They need to release the money. On the Floor here we will say “Kesi baadaye.” Let us rest the case when the money is already at the constituency level. However, we cannot sit here debating and we are not taking any action to make sure that our NG-CDF money is at the constituency level. Since there are people who do not understand, I need to inform them that as for the projects that we do with NG-CDF are concerned, it is the board that comes up with these projects, and they fund them. We are only patrons of this money. We are only there to assist and oversee that everything runs smoothly at our level. We also need to inform them that, at no given time has the Member of Parliament come into contact with these funds. Our work is to ensure that the bursaries are awarded to those vulnerable children from our constituencies. We also engage in building police posts, divisional headquarters or starting new schools. For example, I started Thika Girls, Karibaribi with only 80 students. As we speak today, we have 1,000 students. This year, 250 students are sitting for their Form Four examinations. That is what NG-CDF does to this country. If you move across from one constituency to another; from Central, Western, Coast to North Eastern, you will see a mark. For every project we do with the NG-CDF, there is always big board erected indicating that the project was undertaken by NG-CDF. Therefore, those people who sit somewhere and think that they can run to court and deny the Kenyan people the opportunity to be given services by Members of Parliament are wrong. We are not going to condone them. We are telling them to leave us alone. All we want is for our children to go to school, build our schools, buy desks and also make sure we have dining halls in our schools. I pray that before we break on 2nd December, we sit down to make sure that this NG- CDF will be ready in two weeks instead of the three months that we were given. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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